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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1906
Page
5
General Bell Brigadier J Franklin Bell chief of staff and Clifford Pinchot of the forestry bureau joined President at Sagamore Hill to apprise him of the Brownsville crisis involving United States negro troops. Bell said troops had been moved to Fort Reno and a company of soldiers replaced them. Pinchot came to discuss a forestry matter with the President.
The article argues for supporting marriage among young women teachers, claiming matrimony strengthens the teaching service. It claims married teachers stabilize schools, allow rotation for efficiency, and that child-rearing duties fall to the husband who should manage his household. It urges normal schools to produce new wives.
Cloud County Kansas treasurer J E Wade cannot be found after leaving for a Minneapolis reunion. County commissioners seized the office and will audit the books. Wade admits a five thousand dollar shortage tied to the board of trade gambling and alcohol fights. He warns he will not be captured alive. A warrant will be issued and deputies asked to cover the shortage. Letter mailed from Cripple Creek Colorado.
Dr Charlee W Wilson of Montreal a Toronto orthopedic leader and member of British Medical Association was jailed for seven days after intoxicatedly attempting to hug and kiss Miss Severance of New York in a downtown hotel corridor. The act left Miss Severance hysterical and led to police custody until sober.
Washington reports 1126 deaths and 17170 injuries from railroad accidents in the first quarter of 1906. Of the killed 114 were ...
The Attorney General ruling says eight hour limits do not apply to Navy vessel construction by contractors. Armory workers may exceed eight hours if desired. Government reports forecast over 12,000,000 cotton bales this year. Navy Yard meat contracts in Brooklyn Philadelphia and Norfolk face cancellation questions. Bonapartes opposes Navy as dumping ground for spoiled meat. Census Bureau to collect marital status data under new act. Divorce and alimony questions to be asked. Interior Department prosecutions in land fraud cases continue, Oregon legislator jailed, North Dakota ranchers pled guilty. Wing On Wo wins free duty for dried lizards deemed medicine. Government to buy a liver for coinage, about 100,000 ounces weekly. July price 66 cents per ounce.
Winnipeg Maine Aug 27 Prof Reuben Andrea returned with a handful of rough diamonds found somewhere within Winnipeg province. He took them to several jewelers who pronounced them valuable. He has staked a claim and forwarded samples to New York.
Salford Hibbard, 30, a Missouri farmer with a wife and child, was found dead at his Mountain View area home with a bullet wound in the head. Investigators pursue a possible assassination as this rural county probe continues amid garbled regional text.
New York Aug 27 two British lexicographers joined the simplified spelling board to back the reform movement. Dr J A H Murray editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and Prof Joseph Wright editor of the English dialect dictionary expand the board’s authority alongside American dictionary editors Webster Creatury and Standard.
In Springfield ministers focus sermons on the September 4 local option vote. At the YMCA Robberson Avenue Baptist and Rev Arthur Ingle urge temperance, condemning saloons and calling for action. Ex-Probate Judge J W Stewart denounces city papers for saloon ads and urges reform. A voluntary temperance fund is raised. Jefferson City reports a freight rate conference with Hadley, noting reviews of railroad books and possible court orders to compel disclosure.
Worcester mass Aug 27 The Telegram adopts phonetic spelling in news columns as an experimental one day change. Editors note most rules already followed in 160 of 200 cases and extra staff aided departments to implement the plan.
Reports from Great Northern headquarters say an eastbound mixed train derailed near Swift, Montana, early Sunday night. Passenger coach overturned. Frank E. Pewitt and Charles Schultz of Armington Montana and Brakeman Brown were killed plus eight to ten passengers bruised. Cause of the derailment is not explained.
Alabama held a general democratic primary to nominate a governor and a full slate of state and federal officials including governor chief justice and two US senators with nominations in districts four seven and nine. Ten indictments against Standard Oil Company were returned by the federal grand jury on rebates charges.
The fist annual convention of the Dewscher Kriger Bund of North Amer ica opened a Sunday with a parade of leading members and supporters through the city streets, marking the start of gatherings, speeches, and group ceremonies.
The Kansas City Times recalls Captain Saunders of the Manchuria plagued by repeated misfortune. From a failed voyage with a small coast steamer to the China, he rose to command the brig Manchuria only to endure renewed bad luck on the bridge. Excerpt notes his stubborn fate and public sympathy.
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